He’s playing for the short game. The key will be can he continue to raise through the rest of the primary. He’s in a position to have enough for most of what he needs as long as he’s willing to spend that loan.

That’s a secured loan to a bank so he will want to pay it back eventually so Johnson is very slow in fundraising. A decent effort of calls to PACs and you can knock out $70,000 as a sitting Member of Congress.

I’m sure there’s some to dig out of it, but notable on the list was a small in-kind of labor from Speaker Madigan, Labor and Chicago Business PACs, and one donation from a notorious polluter, a Holcim manager.